Need some help with a "fatal graphics error"

**Druidic** · May 28, 2014, 06:15 PM

I haven't been active in this whole forum as of late, but I recently started up Medieval 2: Total War, a game which I like just as much as Empire. I played quite a bit of it in years past, and have never once had a problem with it.

However, now it doesn't even start up right. When i click on the desktop icon, it goes into black screen for a second (the sign that it's loading) and then goes back to desktop, music still playing. The taskbar says that it's still open. I click on it, and it says "A fatal graphics error has occurred" with some suggestions telling me to set setting to low when i go into a battle. Well, that'd be great to do if I was even allowed in-game!

It then doesn't open up again, and soon it just automatically closes.

Any help for this? By the way, I got the game off of Steam.

**irishron** · May 28, 2014, 06:17 PM

Change computers since the last time you played Medieval2?

**Druidic** · May 28, 2014, 08:50 PM

No, same old computer, hard drive, everything...

Only thing that possibly could've changed is my video card driver, which is updated with GeForce. With that, I can optimise games, but it isn't able to optimise medieval..

**irishron** · May 28, 2014, 08:55 PM

Did the card play it before?
Have you tried verifying the game cache?
What version of Windows?

**Druidic** · May 28, 2014, 10:11 PM

Ok, this may be fixed, idk...

I uninstalled and re-installed it on Steam, and it plays now.. I'll let you guys know if it happens again.

**irishron** · May 29, 2014, 04:07 AM

Good to hear. Enjoy playing.

**Druidic** · May 31, 2014, 10:23 AM

Well, it did it again just now. A few days after the uninstall.

I'll try verifying..

EDIT: Only two files failed to validate. Hopefully they're a part of it.

**JC Denton** · May 31, 2014, 11:30 PM

I have a similiar problem, using Steam version. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and verifying Steam game catch.

The launcher does not run. When I run medevial2.exe, I can do campaign map fine, but with I start a battle, it crashes to desktop with an "unspecified errror" My system.log has alot of entires with [data.missing] and entries like

21:26:30.538 [system.io] [warning] open: data/models/textures/arrow_red.tga.dds is missing
21:26:30.539 [system.io] [warning] open: data/models/textures/vertex_pointer.tga.dds is missing
21:26:30.539 [system.io] [warning] open: data/models/textures/waypoint_marker.tga.dds is missing
21:26:30.540 [system.io] [warning] open: data/textures/battlefield_border.tga.dds is missing
21:26:30.540 [system.io] [warning] open: data/textures/deployment_area_border.tga.dds is missing

But I have verified these files actually exist in the directories ... I thought maybe it was a file access problem so I tried running as administrator but that doesn't help

Running Windows 8.1, it ran OK on Windows 8

**irishron** · June 01, 2014, 04:17 AM

All that is in the pack files. Nothing new.
Alternative launcher. http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...2500705&page=2
Win 8: disable the UAC, take ownership/control of C: drive, and install Steam outside Program Files (x86) and Program files.